Your Console History This Gen

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Started with 360 that died on me 3 times.
Got a Wii as soon as I could find one (went into a store at 2:30 am when the shipment first came in), got a PS3 for Uncharted.

The 360 from a hardware perspective pissed me off, but I liked a lot of games on it (though I still hate console shooters). It still had a lot of good stuff. Dead Rising is still one of my favorites of the generation. I would have liked getting Kinect for voice commands in games, hopefully that feature shows up on the PC version of ME. I definitely miss the selection on XBLA that came up after I left. I'm just not paying another $300 or whatever to do it.

PS3 I've liked a lot from a hardware and software perspective. Since it's not so shooter heavy I've had a lot of fun with the versatility of it. I'm really, really happy with my PS3 and it fills a niche my PC and Wii don't. Not much else to say besides great console and though expensive was worth every penny.

Wii has been my go-to system this gen. As a married guy with a wife that started out from the position of not liking and being intimidated by games, this thing has been a savior. Now she plays Wii all the time, but sadly won't touch most of my PS3 games, twist of irony but she considers them kiddie games for teens and immature man-children. In the end, if this system hadn't come along when it did in the form that it did, the next generation would have 1 less gamer. She saw the WiiU controller video and said "day 1". From zero interest and not liking games at all to "day 1". Regardless how it's remembered by others for what reasons, Wii will always be my favorite console for opening that door.

PC will always be my faithful companion. The biggest and best surprise has been Steam for me. I guess it started 2004 or so but it really blossomed in the last 4 years.